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Gen Pets - Watch the video - Visit the Website—Is it real?
Genetically engineered pets -- or genpets are now available worldwide -- or are they?Watch the video -- it breathes!! It blinks!!
Now visit the website and be creeped out by the kid hugging the plastic clamshell storage pod for -- GENPETS!!
http://www.genpets.com/index.php
For the doubters, here's a really scary statement -- quoting from the website
*Genpet™ life may vary depending on temperature and Genpet ™ freshness
If this is a hoax, I really appreciate the thorough website production. If not, I'm not sure I want one of these scary little things!!
Posted By: gdanea - Thu Jun 25, 2009 -
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Category: Pets
Fly Air Weird!
Clearly this is an idea who's time has come, as Air Canada has also announced this week that it is to carry pets on its planes, as long as they board as hand-luggage. From July, passengers will be able to book the space under their seats as stowage for up to 4 pets in ‘leakproof carriers’, let’s hope no-one thinks that means Tupperware (Telegraph).
And when airlines are not treating pets as luggage, they’re usually treating their customers as cattle. Ryanair, for example, this week announced plans to have the passengers load their own luggage, saving the company an estimated 20 million euros (Belfast Telegraph).
A worse fate greeted passengers on a Thomas Cook charter plane recently when due to a mechanical failure only the front hold could be loaded with baggage, hence passengers were asked to move to the back of plane as ballast, to balance it out. After seeing people disembarking from the service’s previous flight kissing the ground and putting their hands together in prayer, 71 refused and made other travel arrangements (Daily Mail).
Finally, if you think the customers have it bad, spare a thought for the staff of British Airways, which once billed itself as "the World's favorite airline". Times are now so hard for the company it has asked its workforce if they'd mind taking a pay-cut or even working for free for a month, just to tide the company over. BA's chief executive has lead the drive, promising to lead by example and forgo one month of his £735k ($1.2m) salary (Guardian).
(Picture from The Bognor Birdman Event, a semi-serious competition to fly 100 meters from the end of a seaside pier.)
Posted By: Dumbfounded - Wed Jun 24, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Flight, Pets
The Largest Terrestrial Arthropod
Posted By: Nethie - Tue May 19, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Nature, Pets, Science, Hermits
Baby Sounds For Pets
I wonder if anyone buys this product just because they like to hear baby sounds:These are the authentic recordings of infants and toddlers you often read about in magazines, but can never seem to find! Finally, they are all here on one CD - laughing, cooing, gurgling and cryng! Even the dreaded temper tantrum!
Baby Sounds For Pets is the simple way to ease your furry babies into the acceptance of change and keep them in their homes. I know several couples who have happier home with their pets after using this CD.
This is such an easy way to help the animals we love get used to their changing environment! And when pets realize that they are still loved and the new family addition isn't a threat to them, they easily accept the change.
Baby Sounds For Pets is the simple way to ease your furry babies into the acceptance of change and keep them in their homes. I know several couples who have happier home with their pets after using this CD.
This is such an easy way to help the animals we love get used to their changing environment! And when pets realize that they are still loved and the new family addition isn't a threat to them, they easily accept the change.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 06, 2009 -
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Category: Babies, Pets
Dog Armor
Custom-made dog armor. For the times when you plan to take your dog into combat. I wonder if I could order a suit for my parents' 200 lb great dane.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 17, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Pets, Dogs, War
Buddy Love/Luv
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 09, 2009 -
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Category: Business, Products, Movies, Pets, Dogs, Pop Culture, Sex Symbols
Summum
A visit to their site will be time well spent.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 13, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Products, Death, Eccentrics, Frauds, Cons and Scams, New Age, Pets, Religion, Lawsuits, Myths and Fairytales
Fecal Scoring System
Don't you wish that the Purina pet food company would issue a handy chart by which to grade your dog's poop? Well, your wish has come true!Visit the hidden portion of this post, if you have a high tolerance for pictures of dog poop.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 25, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Pets, Dogs, Scatology, Excrement
Life Imitates Cheesy Science Fiction Film
As we learn in this article from today's New York Times, conditions in hurricane-wracked Galveston, Texas, have begun to approach the scenario depicted in the latest remake of I AM LEGEND.As crews hacked away at downed trees and replaced blown-out transformers and cut lines, state and local officials contended with a plethora of other problems, among them a tiger on the loose.
James D. Yarbrough, the Galveston County judge, said a pet tiger, well known to locals, had escaped during the storm and was wandering the ruins of houses on Bolivar Peninsula. “I understand he’s hungry, so we are staying away from him,” Mr. Yarbrough said.
You'll see Will Smith's similar encounter at approximately the one-minute mark in the trailer below.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 17, 2008 -
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Category: Animals, Armageddon and Apocalypses, Death, Disasters, Guns, Movies, Nature, Pets, Dogs, Science Fiction, Actors
Follies of the Mad Men #27
James Brown's got nothing on this guy!
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 17, 2008 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Marriage, Family, Children, Husbands, Parents, Wives, Pets, Dogs, Technology, Gender, 1950s
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